Templates for Liberation is the title of Rheim Alkadhi's exhibition. It addresses ongoing consequences of war and colonialism in present-day Iraq and the region at large; this exhibition presents sculptures, […]
This survey exhibition - 10 Years Anniversary, is co-curated by gallery director James Hu and independent curator Marcelle Joseph, who curated five exhibitions at Lychee One over the last five years, and weaves together an archive of imagination taken from the artists who have shown at Lychee One over the last decade, while creating a reflection […]
Hayley Barker's big, bold and beautiful paintings combine apparently prosaic personal details of the artist’s immediate surroundings in her home and studio in LA with an awareness of time passing and the contradiction of painting as a means of both measuring time’s passage and freezing the moment. In this exhibition, Barker celebrates the cycle of the […]
By the Mark - and the Line below the Loaf brings together a series of drawings from the last 30 years alongside a new monumental drawing made for the exhibition. The exhibition is the most extensive exhibition of Alison Wilding’s drawings in a public gallery to date. It is accompanied by a display of small-scale sculpture, selected […]
This exhibition, drawn from the ARTIST ROOMS collection, brings together examples of Jenny Holzer’s work from different points in her career. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the towering BLUE PURPLE TILT 2007, consisting of seven double-sided vertical LED displays, which is programmed with hundreds of messages from her earlier text series. Holzer uses poetic, […]
Dora Maar: Behind the Lens, presents surrealist works of Maar as well as photographs of Picasso and Guernica, the celebrated anti-war painting for which Maar was the only official photographer. The exhibition also revisits Maar’s erasure throughout art history. As a photographer she was a pioneer, admired by the likes of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Man […]
Noblesse Oblige features over 25 new works exploring the legacies of systems of coercion, exploitation and extraction in Europe and the US. It includes a series of new drawings about burial sites in Ireland designated for those considered ‘unsuitable’ for consecrated ground, and glass works made using an historic artform of etching into gilded gold leaf, depicting contemporary landscapes devastated by […]
This exhibition, Darker than Blue', by Claudette Johnson includes large-scale, vibrantly coloured works in oil and pastel stick, gouache and other media, often on oversized paper sheets, alongside smaller sketches that reveal the intimacy of her work. It also features an immersive soundscape by Trevor Mathison – the first collaboration between the two artists.
Times and Places delves into how Barbara Rae perceived and interpreted the land throughout her career, often revisiting specific locations frequently to view and capture the ever-evolving environment. Not only do we witness the gradual evolution of her work but also how Rae continues to record the memory of the landscape, how they themselves are […]
The title of this new exhibition refers to Alchemy – an ancient practice that included trying to change ordinary metal into gold, and Bharti Kher’s work has these ideas of […]
A new immersive exhibition celebrates the universality and ingenuity of play: Francis Alÿs' Ricochets transforms the gallery into a cinematic playground. Throughout the exhibition, visitors are immersed in multi-screen film installations focussing on children’s games. Since 1999, Alÿs has recorded children at play in different contexts and environments around the globe. Alongside the first presentation […]
Corri-Lynn Tetz’s exhibition, Tender Buttons, concentrates on the female figure, with imagery taken from a collected archive of found imagery and personal photographs, to create indulgent, dream-like painted scenes that capture the vulnerabilities, enactments, and clichés of femininity.
This exhibition of new work by Lorna Robertson includes new paintings made with a combination of oil paint, watercolour, collage and linseed oil on canvas and paper. These paintings sit somewhere between abstraction and figuration, as Robertson describes, ‘a tangled game of hide-and-seek that plays with the visibility and readability of an image’.
This exhibition of work by Birgit Jürgenssen (1949-2003), examines women’s interior lives refracted in exterior systems of power. Many of Jürgenssen’s works focus on the domestic life of a mythic figure, the ‘hausfrau’: an ideal bourgeois Austrian housewife. The exhibition showcases the conceptual and material diversity of Jürgenssen’s work, including lesser-known drawings and photographs from […]
Sueño de la Madrugada (A Midnight’s Dream) is Firelei Báez’s latest exhibition. Known for her striking paintings, she also makes drawings, installations, and sculptures. Báez takes over the Gallery with new immersive installations and large abstract paintings. She uses rich colours, elements from nature, sound and light to reflect on complex colonial histories. The exhibition is a […]
This group show, In the Blood, features represented, and associate artists inspired and committed to painting. The exhibition is a review of their approaches defining their representations of life and emotions, and how those impulses and reflections are translated gesturally and materially, in figuration and abstraction. Artists participating: Rita Alaoui, Virginia Chihota, Miranda Forrester and […]
A journey into the lush landscapes of Nengi Omuku‘s exhibition The Dance of People and the Natural World, finds human figures that blend seamlessly with nature, in her exploration of the relationship between individual and collective thought, belonging, and psychological spaces that transcend traditional Western landscape painting. Omuku’s rich, dreamlike color palette is heavily influenced by […]
Emma McClure’s paintings include animals, still life and landscapes sketched from surrounding scenes in Cornwall. Many of her drawings represent the landscape around the Penwith Peninsular where the moorland, farms and fields are a constant source of inspiration. Another recurring theme are the colourful and characterful exotic birds from a nearby bird sanctuary, plus the […]
Exorcism: Inside Out, an exhibition by the feminist surrealist, Penny Slinger, which spans original photo-collage, print and video work. The exhibition coincides with the publication of Slinger's iconic book, An Exorcism: A Photo Romance (Fulgur Press, 21 June 2024).
A Commonplace Collection of Paintings, is an exhibition of new works by Lottie Cole. Cole utilises the genre of interiors and objects with meaning to explore the passing of time, personal experience and her responses to everyday life. For this exhibition, Cole introduces subjects beyond interiors, widening the visual language of her painted world, with […]